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WATCH ALONG | CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO | 19x12 | Kinda: Part 4 (Patreon)

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2023-12-21 18:19:40
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2024-01
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REMINDER: We're jumping ahead to the season 19 story, Earthshock, next. Part 1 of that story is currently exporting and should be posted in about 30 minutes.

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Azmat Mahmood

Once Tegan gives in and the Mara gains access to our world, it realises she's weak and has no influence on this planet to wreak the required level of destruction, so seeks another body to takeover and that's where Aris comes in. He'd been established as being distraught over his brother being taken as prisoner by the colonists and the Mara uses his anger and desire for revenge to take control of not just him, but the rest of the Kinda too, who blindly follow him because they believe Aris being able to speak as a male Kinda (only female Kindas have the gift of voice) is a miracle and part of some prophecy of a man with the gift of voice coming among them that will lead them to salvation and so must be obeyed. This is exactly what the Mara wants and it plots to lead the Kinda on a fruitless attack on the dome, which will result in the destruction of both the colonists and the Kinda, two civilisations will fall. The maximum level of death and destruction will have been achieved and the Mara will return to its domain and wait for the next civilisation to arise. The wheel of time will keep turning, as it has always done. Civilisations will fall and out of their ashes new ones will rise, and the Mara feasts on all this pain and suffering and it causes the wheel to turn and time to move forward, which ties back to this story being set on a planet that is very much like the garden of Eden. The story of the Mara is basically a retelling of the most famous origin myth. The apples and snake imagery are very clear allusions to this. The colonist's decision to leave this planet and deem it unsuitable for colonisation also seems to be a rejection of paradise as a concept. The planet, which was very intentionally call Dev Loka (a place that is the dwellings of Gods in both Hinduism and Buddhism) was referred to as perfect and like a paradise several times in the story, but the Mara proved that all was not what it seemed. The temptation of a planet like this and the illusion of perfect harmony it has is just so the evil that lurks beneath can hide and cower away, waiting to strike. Again, this entire story is a rejection of paradise as a concept, it's a fallacy. Such a place can't exist because perfection is unattainable and impossible and to seek such things will only lead to your destruction. The Doctor saying paradise is a little too green for him at the end is a great way to succinctly get that point across and a perfect line to end the story. The way this all ties in with the anti-colonial message is brilliant because the Kinda are portrayed as the only beings that can survive on a planet like this because they're the only ones that truly understand it and all the dangers it brings, while the human colonists naively dream of it as a paradise and dismiss the Kinda as mindless savages. In the end, all the humans have to retreat back to their own planet and leave Dev Loka to the Kinda because they're the only ones enlightened enough to actually live in it. I mean, the only reason Hindle was healed in the end was because of the Kinda's Jhana box, which proves how advanced in many ways the Kinda are compared to humans. This is all very interesting and I find Kinda to be a very enjoyable and intellectually stimulating story to watch. This story gives no easy answers and really forces you to think and it's all the better for it.

Jade Ellis

Was probably going to sin up for classic reactions eventually but had to when I saw you reacting to this story. It'd my second favourite classic story. I love the setting, the characters are great and there's all the reasons Azmat mentioned above. Also it's one of the earliest stories I remember watching as a kid so there is that to it as well. It's only the scene of Adric and Tegan bickering in episode 4 that lets it down a bit but this is simply filler because the episode was running under time. I love the line in episode one "an apple a day keeps the... never mind." Indecently the reason Nyssa was only in the start and end of the story is because the actress wasn't contracted for enough episodes so they had to cut her out of two episodes somewhere along the line.